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Thoughts From The Phillips Lord: AKA The Poetry Of Robert McCloskey Seth Parker “Magic City” The growth of Millinocket in the 1920s

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The children’s author from Deer Isle

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Inside This Edition

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It Makes No Never Mind James Nalley

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The Modern Farming Special Rolls Into Down East Maine An agricultural history Brian Swartz

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Big Chick, Little Chick, Which Chick?

The names vary but the hikes remain the same Brian Swartz

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13 The Genealogy Corner Discovering a famous relative

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16 Disney Legend Joe Fowler Brooksville’s engineering genius

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19 Trenton’s Henry Gassett Davis The man who gave us Davis’s Law

Charles Francis 25 When The Celtics Played In Eastern Maine This would never happen today

Brian Swartz 30 The Poetry Of Robert McCloskey The children’s author from Deer Isle

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34 Martha Moore Avery

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37 Sardines: Gone For Good?

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41 The 1913 Motorcar Deluge Selectmen’s restrictions couldn’t stop progress

Brian Swartz 46 Lubec’s Brave Seafarers Welcomed Home

Sailors survived a frightening row through raging seas Brian Swartz

48 Lincoln’s Samuel Freeman Hersey Former merchant elected to Congress from Maine’s 4th District

Brian Swartz 51 A Child’s Imagination Cranberry Isles’ Rachel Field Charles Francis 55 Phillips Lord: AKA Seth Parker Jonesport’s world-famous radio personality

Charles Francis 62 Remembrance At The East Ridge Cemetery Honoring Civil War vets in Cooper

Karen E. Holmes 65 Thoughts From The “Magic City”

The growth of Millinocket in the 1920s

Katy Perry 67 The Legendary Lombard Log Hauler

Life of the early Maine lumberjack

Charles Francis 71 Albert H. Lunt From Who Knows Where No one wanted to claim a Maine deserter

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It Makes No Never Mind

by James Nalley

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ancock,Washington, and Penobscot Counties are situated in the “downeast” area of Maine, which is really the state’s southeastern corner. From late spring to early fall, this area becomes inundated by more than one million tourists who come to enjoy the attractions of these three counties. In addition to the more than 1,000 miles of Atlantic coastline, Hancock County is the home of Acadia National Park (the only national park in New England) and Cadillac Mountain (the highest point of Maine’s coastal region) while Washington County includes Cobscook Bay State Park, and the Maine Coastal Islands National Wildlife Refuge, to name a few. Penobscot County, meanwhile, has been a haven for outdoor enthusiasts, and at the top of the list, of course, is Maine’s majestic Mt. Katahdin and Baxter State Park. ATVers, hikers and fishermen flock to this rugged part of the state after mud season. What this all comes down to is a traveler’s dream of excellent seafood and plenty of outdoor activities.

But one aspect of the area is particularly interesting. During the late 1990s, a fierce debate ensued regarding the question of what part of Maine receives the sun’s rays when

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it first rises over the horizon each morning.

Especially near the turn of the millennium, many planned to ascend Cadillac Mountain to see the “first dawn of the 2000s.”

But Washington County, which is known as “Sunrise County,” begged to differ. After their appeal with the U.S. Naval Observatory was rejected (which claimed that sunlight arrived at the SAME TIME), the Sunrise County devotees and the Hancock County loyalists became further divided. Now, I won’t mention the fact that Mars Hill in Aroostook County includes, “Where the Sun Rises First in the U.S.A.” on its letterhead. It would just confuse things. But whether you trek to the top of Mars Hill, Cadillac Mountain, Mt. Katahdin, or the easternmost point of Washington County, one aspect can be agreed upon ― watching the sun rise over the water is an excellent way to start one’s day.

Aside from the ongoing debate, these three counties each have an interesting history based on two overall industries: lumber and fishing. With approximately 90% of the three counties consisting of forest, the various lumber mills have employed generations of families who, through their sweat and toil, risked their lives to make a meager living. On the other hand, the thriving fishing industry enjoyed all of nature’s offerings from salm-

on to lobster. Meanwhile, the solitary lighthouses (with many still in existence) have stood quietly and guided weary sailors home from their dangerous outings. These are just some of topics that have inspired the stories in this edition of Discover Maine Magazine.

So please enjoy them and if you do happen to take a copy to your preferred “first sunrise” point, then don’t forget to look up, because the sunrise lasts for only a few minutes before it goes behind the coastal clouds.

Well, in usual “It Makes No Never Mind” fashion, I will close with following yarn: After a long day of fishing, a fisherman was walking along the pier carrying two lobsters in a pail. He was approached by a ranger who asked for his fishing license. The fisherman replied, “I didn’t catch these lobsters, they are my pets. Every morning, I come down to the water, whistle, and these lobsters jump out and I take them for a walk.” The ranger, in disbelief, said, “You know, it’s illegal to fish without a license.” The fisherman replied, “If you don’t believe me, then take a look,” as he threw the lobsters back into the water. The ranger, intrigued, says, “OK, now whistle and show me what the lobsters can do.” The fisherman turned to the ranger and said, “What lobsters?”

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The Modern Farming Special Rolls into Down East Maine An agricultural history

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f people could not come to Old MacDonald’s Farm in June 1910, then Old MacDonald’s Farm could come to the people, courtesy of the University of Maine’s College of Agriculture.

To promote modern farming, a special train hauled agricultural exhibits on a 15-day tour of the Pine Tree State. Comprising a steam-powered locomotive, a passenger car, two flat cars, and two baggage cars, the Modern Farming Special departed Orono at 7 a.m., Thursday, June 9.

Aboard were College of Agricul-

ture faculty, Professor R.E. Hitchings of Augusta, and other farming notables. The train was “fully equipped with exhibits of every department of instruction at the University of Maine” plus “one or two” Maine Department of Agriculture exhibits, according to the Bangor Daily News.

Overseeing train operations was E.T. Billings from the Maine Central Railroad.

Organizers envisioned the Modern Farming Special as a way to introduce the latest agricultural equipment and practices to a Maine that still lived

very much down on the farm. Agriculture played a dynamic role in the state’s economy, but many farmers lived in rural regions where new machinery and ideas might appear only in newspaper or catalogs.

So why not bring those concepts and machines to where the farmers lived?

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row cultivator, a potato planter, a potato digger, and a riding side hill plow, among other machinery; • The “spray machinery car” displayed “two four-row potato spraying outfits,” an orchard spraying outfit, another gasoline engine, and a 50-gallon barrel pump; • Aboard a car devoted to “animal industry, potato husbandry, and veterinary science” were some separators; a “complete Cow Test association outfit”; “models of horses’ teeth,” hooves, and hind legs; egg brooders and incubators; equipment associated with milking and sheep-shearing; and the models of various cow parts, including a stomach and udder; • Aboard the car devoted to “agronomy, horticulture and forestry” were almost every conceivable chart,

farm brochure, and piece of equipment focused on growing and harvesting corn, fruits, grains, and trees.

About the only machinery missing due to its sheer bulk was a Lombard log hauler.

The Modern Farming Special steamed south to cross the Penobscot River on the steel trestle that connected Bangor to Brewer, then sped southeast through Holden, Dedham, and Ellsworth before pulling into Ellsworth train station at 8:30 a.m.

The well-advertised train “was met by a curious and fairly good-sized crowd of 150 people” who toured the exhibits for the next hour, the Bangor Daily News reported.

Dignitaries included Hancock County Sheriff F.O. Silsby, former Ellsworth mayors H.E. Davis and

A.W. Greeley, and the Ellsworth Board of Trade’s President John O. Whittier and Secretary O.W. Tapley.

Meanwhile Professor H.G. Belt lectured on corn, and Professor P.A. Campbell lectured on pigs. Among the farmers listening might have been Curtis Taylor, who drove a team 14 miles over less-than modern roads to meet the Modern Farming Special.

Proceeding east through Washington Junction in Hancock, the train traveled about 32 miles to arrive at Cherryfield at 10:45 a.m. The Bangor Daily News reporter accompanying the train waxed eloquent on the turnout – larger than Ellsworth’s – and on the “large proportion of women in attendance,” a circumstance he noted at other Washington County stops, too.

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who were at the station were Bion Preston, the principal farmer of the [Washington] country, who harvested 5000 barrels of potatoes last year, D.W. Campbell, H.P. Nichols, Everett Tucker, Irving Strout, Charles Campbell, and Jacob Bailey,” the reporter dropped some well-known Down East surnames.

Passengers disembarked for dinner at Cherryfield, and three professors lectured about different farming topics important to the local economy.

After everyone reboarded, the Modern Farming Special steamed east for 30 minutes to Columbia Falls, where another large crowd turned out to tour the exhibits and rub elbows with the University of Maine whizzes. “A large number of the old farmers of the surrounding district came to

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the station to see the train and among these were Seth Allen, P.B. Peterson, John Crandon, and Richard Allen,” the reporter wrote.

“The train was thrown open for inspection and many viewed the exhibits with great interest,” he wrote. “A delegation of the Eastport Board of Trade” greeted the train and its occupants, who were later treated to dinner at Goulding’s Restaurant. Then festivities shifted to the Eastport Opera House, where Bell again lectured about dairy cattle.

“The day of the trip was a success in every way,” the reporter wrote. The train “was greeted by as large crowds as expected (excepting Ellsworth) and all seemed pleased with the exhibits and deeply interested in the lectures,” he claimed.

After spending the night in Eastport, passengers reboarded the Modern Farming Special on Friday morning and steamed northwest to make additional stops in Pembroke, Princeton, and Calais. There the passengers would rest again before resuming their modern agriculture tour across Maine.

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Big Chick, Little Chick, Which Chick?

The names may vary, but the hikes remain the same

by Brian Swartz alk about identity theft — a Clifton peak popular with hikers has stolen a neighbor’s good name.

Named after the quiet town that encompasses Phillips Lake in Hancock County, the Dedham Hills rise in the west at Mount Waldo in Frankfort and flow east along the Hancock-Penobscot County border to dissipate in western Washington County. Thrusting their tree-studded granite caps above the horizon, specific peaks lure hikers and rock climbers to ledges that offer outstanding views.

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states 95 and 395 and Route 202 in Bangor and Hampden notice the Dedham Hills rising along the far horizon.

Peak blends into peak, and no particular hill — topographical maps identify many Dedham peaks as “mountains” — dominates the horizon.

Except far eastward, where one rugged granite peak emerges above the skyline.

That’s Peaked Mountain — or Big Peaked Mountain — or Little Peaked Mountain — or Chick Hill — or Big Chick — or Little Chick — and everywhere a “chick, chick,” because most folks living in the southern Pe-

nobscot Valley call this mountain “Chick Hill,” and its higher and lower summits “Big Chick” and “Lower Chick.”

But that’s topographical identity theft.

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northern half tree-covered, its southern half bare granite ledges, Peaked Mountain looms above the winding road like a tsunami wave that never quite reaches the nearby shore.

But wait! A smaller Peaked Mountain rendition juts into the Penobscot County sky nearer Route 9. Its summit also 50-50 trees and ledge, this peak bears the name Little Peaked Mountain.

But, that’s not right! At convenience stores along Route 9 in Brewer, Eddington, or Clifton, hikers or rock climbers asking directions to Peaked Mountain or Little Peaked Mountain in Clifton would encounter puzzled expressions, dawning reality, and a blurted, “Oh, you mean Chick Hill!”

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Well, the federal government claims GPS-equipped outdoor recreationists will find Chick Hill at latitude North 44.838959 and longitude West 68.465303. Hikers and rock climbers can punch those coordinates into a Garmin GPS and head for a fun time atop Chick Hill.

Yeah, right, after bushwhacking through the Clifton forest to discover that Chick Hill’s only 889 feet above sea level, not the 1,148 feet as the hiking guides indicate for Peaked Mountain.

That’s because the federal government locates Peaked Mountain’s highest spot at latitude North 44.828237 and longitude West 68.463914. The “44s” and “68s” match, but not the six figures beyond the decimal points.

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tures far afield to climb Chick Hill ultimately discovers that Chick Hill is not Peaked Mountain — but that Peaked Mountain is Chick Hill, as well as Big Chick and Little Chick.

In the mid- to late-19th century folks traveling along The Airline between Brewer and Calais crossed a col (a dip between adjacent mountains) at the Clifton-Amherst line. The Airline passed between Chick Hill to the north and Peaked Mountain and its smaller cousin to the south.

In the 20th century, the Maine State Highway Commission shifted The Airline south of Peaked Mountain. Sometime during these decades, possibly earlier, Peaked Mountain became Chick Hill in local lore.

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To reach Peaked Mountain and the communications tower that displaced a long-standing fire tower, hikers can follow the mountain’s eroded access road or venture onto one of three marked trails. The first, accessible from a gravel parking lot, ascends Little Peaked Mountain before descending into the col between that summit and Peaked Mountain. Once “down” into this col, hikers should bear right (east) and follow the blue blazes through a thick hardwood forest.

The trail then steeply ascends Peaked Mountain, but the workout is worth the effort. On a clear day forests, ponds, and mountains stretch away to the far horizon. In early October, that same view encompasses a kaleidoscopic forest ablaze with reds,

oranges, and yellows that intersperse delightfully with dark evergreens.

No matter the time of year, hikers should remember that they’re standing on Peaked Mountain, not Chick Hill, because the real Chick Hill is over there somewhere beyond the trees.

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How did this topographical confusion and identity theft take place?

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The Genealogy Corner Discovering a famous relative

by Charles Francis

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ome time ago a Discover Maine reader named Thomas Snowman called the magazine offices. Mr. Snowman had a question he hoped someone in the office would pass on to me. His question involved an article I had written about Edwin Ginn. Specifically, Mr. Snowman wanted to know if Lulu M. Ginn and Edwin Ginn were related.

Mr. Snowman had a good reason for thinking that Lulu and Edwin were related, as they indeed were. Both were born in Orland. Then, when I discovered that Lulu married one Thurman Snowman, I decided that Thomas Snowman was trying to find out if he was related to a famous person.

Edwin Ginn was a notable figure of the nineteenth century. He was a selfmade man. Born in a poor farming

family in Orland in 1838, he put himself through Tufts University by selling schoolbooks. He then went on to found the educational publishing house of Ginn & Co.. Publishing made Ginn one of the wealthiest men in the United States. However, Ginn was more than just a self-made millionaire. In fact, he went on to become much more than a successful businessman.

I suggested to the Discover Maine staff member who contacted me about Thomas Snowman’s request that they pass on to Snowman that he visit a local library or the Orland Town Office, and look at birth, death, and marriage records for the Ginn family. The local library would have been the Buck Memorial Library in Bucksport. Mr. Snowman’s quest was a simple one, one that he could find the answers for

himself. Somewhat later I discovered something I am sure Mr. Snowman would have wanted to know.

In 2007 a major biography was published on Edwin Ginn. The author is Robert Rotberg, a Stanford University professor. The biography is A Leadership for Peace: How Edwin Ginn Tried to Change the World.

I have read Professor Rotberg’s book. It deals with how Edwin Ginn created the International School for Peace in Boston. The school became the World Peace Foundation. Today The Edwin Ginn Memorial Library is the main library of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.

Edwin Ginn left a major mark in the world. Not just in publishing, as Ginn & Co. still exists, but also at his alma (Continued on page 14)

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(Continued from page 13) mater. Edwin isn’t the only Ginn with connections to Orland and the Bucksport area in general to leave a mark in the historical record, either.

Most of us would like to discover that we have a famous person or two in our family tree. And it is surprisingly easy to do so. That is, if a few conditions are met.

There are now a number of genealogy services that offer a specialty feature of determining whether or not one is related to or connected to famous historical personages in any way.

To find out if you have a relative of note or a relative who is associated with individuals of note, you must first have researched your family tree to some extent. Supply this information along with the required fee to any of a growing number of genealogy services and you may just find you had a relative who rode with Jesse James. Then again you may just learn that you and the notorious outlaw share a common ancestor.

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The results can be specific or general.

For example, you might discover an ancestor who was close enough in time and place to have seen the aftermath of the famous Johnstown flood of May of 1889. Then, of course, there is the local library.

A number of Maine histories reference members of the Ginn (the name sometimes appears as Genn) family who settled Orland, Bucksport and the Brewer/Orrington area. Several male members of the Ginn family are Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) sources. One James Ginn was a 2nd lieutenant in Captain John Brewer’s company of the Penobscot Regiment commanded by Colonel Josiah Brewer. Private Samuel Ginn served in Captain Joseph Smith’s company of the regiment. The Penobscot Regiment guarded the coast during the Revolu-

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An investigation of birth and death records shows the Ginns who settled the Penobscot region from Bucksport and Orland and on up to Orrington and Brewer as having come from Gloucester, Massachusetts just prior to or immediately after the Revolution. Ginns had first settled in Maryland and Virginia.

As to whether or not someone has a famous or notable ancestor or other family connection is, of course, a matter of perspective. By any standard, though, it would appear that Thomas Snowman can be proud of his Ginn connections.

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Disney Legend Joe Fowler Brooksville’s engineering genius

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hen Joe Fowler died December 3, 1993, he was ninety-nine.

When Joe Fowler died he was the oldest living graduate of the United States Naval Academy and the oldest living retiree of the Walt Disney Company.

Joe Fowler was Rear Admiral Joseph W. Fowler. Admiral Fowler died in Orlando, Florida. Orlando is, of course, home to Disney World. Fowler was the driving force behind the construction of the famous Disney park. That fact helps explain why Admiral Fowler lived there.

Orlando wasn’t Fowler’s only home, though. He also had a home in Brooksville. Rear Admiral Joseph W. Fowler was a Mainer.

Joe Fowler had a nickname. The sobriquet was “Can-Do Joe.” Can-Do Joe was senior vice president for engineering and construction at Disney until 1972.

He was a consultant until 1976.

Some obituaries of Joe Fowler noted

“he was a main figure in the development of both Disneyland and Disney World.”

Others called him “master builder of warships and Disney theme parks.” As “master builder of warships” Can-Do Joe oversaw the assembly-line launchings of the Kaiser fleet of cargo ships. This was during World War II when Fowler was in command of the San Francisco Naval Yard.

Joe Fowler is an important figure in American history. This statement has military and cultural implications. The importance of the Kaiser fleet of cargo ships in winning World War II cannot be understated. The same is so of the impact the Disney theme parks have had on the American psyche. Disneyland and Disney World are a centerpiece of American popular culture. For all of this, Admiral Fowler’s passing was hardly noted by his fellow Mainers. The only exception to this statement would be the Admiral’s

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Much of Joe Fowler’s adult life was spent as a career naval officer. As such he was given assignments in far-flung ports around the world and the country. Then he was caught up in the frenetic pace of creating Disneyland and Disney World.

It is no wonder he sought out the calm and serenity of Brooksville with its traditions of wooden boat building. This says something about the mindset of the man they called Can-Do but it doesn’t really say anything about what he actually accomplished.

In the 1920s Joe Fowler built gunboats in Shanghai. Then, he oversaw design changes for warships, including the carriers Saratoga and Lexington, the largest aircraft carriers of WWII, while assigned to the Navy Department in Washington.

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Can-Do Joe’s naval career lasted thirty-five years. He retired in 1948. But not for long. He was recalled to active duty in 1951. This was during the Korean Conflict. At the time, Fowler was engaged in building tract homes in southern California. Now, what Fowler did was revamp the purchasing system for the entire military. The problem had been “red tape” slowing supply.

Joe Fowler’s military career would seem more than enough for any person.

But at age sixty he began a second career.

Joe Fowler spent twenty-five years with Disney!

Can-Do Joe was born in Lewiston in 1894. He graduated from the Naval Academy in Annapolis, second in his class, in 1917. In World War I he was a navigator on submarine-patrol duty. In 1921 he earned a master’s degree in naval architecture from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In one sense all this leads up to why Walt Disney personally invited a retired ship builder to lead construction of what was Disney’s greatest dream, Disneyland.

Disneyland was built in one year.

It was built on schedule. Following the park’s completion Fowler managed it.

He also chose the site for Disneyland. He went to Florida incognito in search of the appropriate location.

Joe Fowler is a Disney legend. That’s official. It’s how he is regarded by company historians. The Disney empire is most definitely interested in its history.

That history is all part of its image; an image Can-Do Joe had a significant role in creating. The following is an example of the Joe Fowler legend.

Walt Disney wanted water to part at the Adventureland stage. Then he wanted it to close. It was the same problem Moses had with the Red Sea. Disney looked to Fowler and said what he wanted.

Fowler’s response is said to have been “Can do.”

An observer later said “I know he had no idea how he was going to part the water, but he said it without hesitation – ‘can do, can do.’ And, by golly, he did it.”

During the 1960s and 70s, Joe Fowler was given the Herculean task of planning and building Walt Disney World. At one point during the Orlando project, Can-Do Joe held three posts. Simultaneously! He was senior vice president for engineering

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Can-Do Joe Fowler’s last connections with Disney were severed in 1978. He retired, but not to be forgotten. Nor was he forgotten with his passing. That’s why he is a Disney legend.

There is a Disney memorial to Joseph Fowler. For a time there was a riverboat, the Admiral Joe Fowler. It was taken out of service in 1980 to be replaced by a ferry of the same name. It’s in the Seven Seas Lagoon in the Magic Kingdom.

Today millions of Americans know the work of Joe Fowler if not his name.

That is, unless they note the ferry named for him. That the ferry is in the Magic Kingdom seems wholly appropriate.

However, one wonders if Can-Do Joe found his own magic kingdom on the Blue Hill Peninsula in Brooksville.

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Trenton’s Henry Gassett Davis The man who gave us Davis’s Law

by Charles Francis

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rinciples associated with or that stem from Davis’s Law are of the utmost importance in fields ranging from physical therapy to strength training to the treatment and rehabilitation of broken bones and torn or otherwise damaged muscles. Athletic coaches use the principles literally every day.

So, too, do physical and recreational therapists. Its applications are a base for the treatment of scoliosis, multiple sclerosis and congenital physical deformities. What we are talking about here is the general area of biomechanics, in its very broadest or most general sense.

In short, we are talking about one of the widest fields of study of the human body.

Davis’s Law is one of the most important components of biomechanics and physical therapy. Yet practitioners in those fields know little or even nothing of it. As a matter of fact, many university professors of biomechanics and practicing physical therapists, or for that matter, well paid professional coaches and athletic trainers have never heard of the law.

Davis’s Law is used in anatomy in describing how soft tissue responds to imposed demands. It is used to describe muscle-length relationships and to predict rehabilitation procedures and treat-

ment in relation to muscle length.

If you are a serious athlete or even an on-again, off-again athlete, you most likely utilize principles that stem from Davis’s Law as they relate to stretching. Most runners and joggers stretch before and after exercising. So, too, do weight lifters and body builders. Davis’s Law also explains how a muscle will lengthen in response to stretching.

How important is stretching to exercise? Just ask a runner who has done the Mt. Washington Road Race. That’s some eight miles of uphill exertion.

Serious Mt. Washington competitors run back down the mountain after running up. They return to the start of the (Continued on page 20)

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race by running backward! Why? It’s because most major muscles have an opposite. Protagonistic and antagonistic muscles (and their related groups of muscles) will end up reciprocating each other’s length. A strong and inflexible calf may therefore result in a weak and flexible shin muscle. The run back down the mountain is done to balance the run up the mountain.

The man who gave us Davis’s Law was Henry Gassett Davis. He wrote two books on the subject as well as numerous articles. The books are Conservative Surgery and The American Method of Treating Joint Diseases and Deformities. Davis was a nineteenth century physician. His books are still in print.

A fair number of his articles are available in medical libraries. Recent works such as Spencer’s Practical Podiatric Orthopedic Procedures and Tippett’s and Voight’s Functional Progression for Sport Rehabilitation are based on Davis’s work.

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up, he thought he might be a mechanic and a manufacturer of cotton bagging.

That’s how his father made his living in Trenton. Then his sister was diagnosed with scoliosis. This motivated Henry to pursue the study of medicine. He became a general practitioner and then a surgeon. Eventually he specialized in orthopedic medicine.

Henry Gassett Davis was born in Trenton in 1807. He was a graduate of the Yale University School of Medicine. This was when it took just three years to earn the right to append M. D. to one’s name. Most physicians of the time (Davis earned his M. D. in 1839) were content with this training. Henry wasn’t, though. He went on to further study at New York City’s famous Bellevue Hospital. Then he settled in as a G. P. in Massachusetts, in Worcester and then Millbury. He stayed in Massachusetts for fifteen years.

As a practicing G. P., Davis had a good number of patients who suffered from the effects of poor posture and re-

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petitive motion activities. These sorts of medical problems went along with the country’s development of industry.

The poor posture and repetitive activities resulted in muscle imbalances where one series of stressed muscles shortened and became excessively rigid while the antagonists weakened in response to their being stretched beyond normal. For example, a person with rounded or forward rolled shoulders would have tight or rigid chest muscles with their opposing back muscles being weakened.

What Davis saw in his early years as a doctor would later serve as the base for Davis’s Law. If muscle ends are brought closer together, then pull is increased, thereby shortening the muscle which may result in increased size. If muscle ends are separated beyond normal, then pull is lessened or lost, thereby weakening the muscle. If soft tissue is placed under unremitting tension, the tissue will elongate by adding more material. In short, all muscle groups

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must be used to maintain balance. Athletes know this as “Use it or lose it.”

Henry Davis is credited with developing the traction school of orthopedic surgery and creating the first splint for traction and protection of the hip joint.

The principle was “support without pressure and motion without friction.”

This was at a time when most physicians favored brace immobilization.

What Davis did was to design an elastic material which allowed for both extension and support. It was used for fractures as well as for deformities.

This was the “American Method” mentioned in the Davis book title above.

The term became current in the 1860s as European doctors visited Civil War hospitals where they saw the method’s application. From Civil War battlefields the American Method spread to Europe and beyond, becoming “the” standard.

Henry Gassett Davis’s beliefs and practices formed the basis for modern-day approaches to a good many medical conditions including club foot,

congenital dislocation of the hip, chronic joint diseases and polio deformities.

Davis’s influences in athletics as well as the workplace are more recent developments.

While most athletes know the value of stretching, the same is not necessarily true of the office and assembly line worker. The latter environment may be the last place where habits are undergoing change, thanks to Henry Davis.

Soft-tissue such as tendons and ligaments adapt to load placement. If you sit all day in a hunched position, you are stretching your back the entire time and all the soft-tissue that sits posterior to the center of the discs will be stretched and become lax. This is not a desirable condition. Similarly, hip flexors will shorten as they are placed in a flexed position while sitting. This, too, is less than desirable. It tends to inhibit the largest of the body’s muscle groups, the gluteuls. Over stressing the gluteuls throws the entire body out of kilter.

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Not too long ago a sports writer named Bret Contreras stumbled across Davis’s Law. He wrote a piece about the law as it relates to the sporting world, ending it with the question “Just who in hell is Davis?” Contreras was surprised by his findings, as far as the world of sport are concerned. He probably would have been more surprised to learn that Henry Davis first entered the field of orthopedic medicine out of a desire to make life easier for his sister. Those of us with an appreciation of the Downeast Maine ethic of the nineteenth century can well understand why Henry Davis followed the path he did, though.

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When The Celtics Played in Eastern Maine This would never happen today

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astern Maine basketball fans will never forget how the Boston Celtics launched their 195253 preseason by playing in Ellsworth, Bangor, Houlton, and Calais, not exactly “road names” on the typical National Basketball Association tour.

Coach Arnold “Red” Auerbach and owner Walter Brown had agreed to seven preseason games against the Rochester Royals, a team from upstate New York. The NBA was big in the early 1950s, although not as big as today, when lucrative TV contracts and athletic endorsements send teams and players where the money and fans are. More than 40 years ago, however, sports teams often scrimmaged in the

hinterlands, which for proper Bostonians was anywhere beyond the Massachusetts border.

The Celtics, who planned an October 21, 1952 season opener on the road against Indianapolis, would not open at home until they played the Syracuse Nationals at the Boston Garden on November 8. Meanwhile, the Irish – definitely New England’s most popular pro basketball team – intended to meet the Rochester Royals at games in Ellsworth, Bangor, Houlton, Calais and Portland in Maine, in Burlington, Vermont, and at Madison Square Garden in New York. These seven games were among the 15 preseason exhibition matches the Celtics had scheduled;

the remaining eight games would be played against regional teams.

The ’52-’53 version of the fabulous Celtics returned tour veterans Bob Cousy, Dick Dickey, Bob Donham, and Bill Sharman. Kenny Rollins, who had played for the Chicago Stags, and Ken Reeves, a University of Louisville standout who would likely have been drafted by the Celtics by graduation if the Army had not requested his services first, stood high on Auerbach’s list of “must play” talent. Auerbach could consult his team list and identify the other stars: center “Easy” Ed Macauley, Johnny Mahnken, Cleggie Hermsen, and Donald Rehfeldt.

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(Continued from page 25) players who reported to a three-week training camp in Ellsworth in autumn 1952 were Chuck Cooper, Bob Harris, and Francis “Moe” Mahoney, a Brown University star who had recently completed a tour of duty in Korea. They, and the other names familiar to Maine basketball fans, attended the Auerbach-run training camp, an idea conceived and supported by the Ellsworth Lions Club. Only Gene Conley delayed reporting for the camp, and he cited the valid excuse of finishing a long season with Milwaukee in the American Association. Auerbach okayed a few days’ rest for Conley.

Imagine a Lions Club organizing a training camp for the Celtics today; such a possibility, considered improbable in the late 1990s, could occur in those long ago years when players and fans mingled outside the game, and the

pros received more pay for playing the game than endorsing athletic footwear.

By October 9, 1952, though, eastern Maine basketball fans bubbled with excitement: The Celtics were in town!

Their loyal fans need not take a pounding road trip down Route 1 to watch the Irish play at the Boston Garden; their “boys” were practicing right here in Ellsworth! The modern equivalent would bring the Red Sox to practice at Cameron Stadium in Bangor or the Bruins to skate at the Alfond Arena at the University of Maine.

On Thursday, October 9, the Celtics rode from Ellsworth to Stonington High School to participate in a program honoring Celtics’ trainer Harvey Cohn.

They practiced a while, then played a game-length intrasquad scrimmage that left some 400 Stonington and Deer Isle fans ecstatic.

The next evening, the Irish and the Magic City Pills from Millinocket took the court at 8:30 p.m. at Ellsworth High School for a scrimmage sponsored by the Ellsworth Lions Club. This wasn’t exactly professional level basketball, but local wags anticipated a good matchup. The Pills, according to a Bangor sportswriter, “have just about ruled the roost against Maine competition in (the) semi-pro ranks.”

The Celtics broke training camp on Sunday, October 12, and spent the day resting. Auerbach praised the team’s reception in Hancock County; “Ellsworth has been a wonderful place to train, and the condition of my boys is the best testimonial I know at the moment,” he said. “We’re ready for this season. This squad is in the best condition of any in my three years at Boston.”

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(Continued from page 26) for the 8:30 p.m. matchup between the Celtics and Royals went on sale at the Ellsworth High School box office at 3 p.m. The Royals anticipated a good series against Boston, whom their owner and coach, Les Harrison, considered a viable contender. “We’re delighted to be playing Boston in Maine.” He told the press on October 12. “Red Auerbach’s teams have always been interesting to watch. I just hope Red’s boys haven’t thrived too much on all that clean Maine air. But we’ll give them a busy evening, I promise you. Haven’t we always, though?”

Both squads went at each other hammer and tongs that Monday night.

Boston led 33-26 at halftime and fans figured the game already won. But the Royals, fired up by Bobby Wanzer and Bobby Davies, want on a tear in that border time zone between the third and fourth quarters and tied the game at 48-

48 at three minutes into the last quarter.

Assigned to guard high-scoring Bob Cousy, Wanzer held the popular Celtics scoreless throughout the game, a feat even the sportswriters could not recall.

The Celtics and Royals battled to the final buzzer. With only seconds left on the clock, Bill Sharman, “possessing extraordinary springiness, went up and fired.” A sportswriter recalled. “Then it dropped through (the) strings, and that was the ball game, all wrapped up in Celtic green.”

The teams rode to Bangor on Tuesday, October 14, for a rematch at the Bangor Auditorium. The Celtics. Who had played and won six preseason games in Maine since the autumn of 1950, figured they would win No. 7 tonight. The Royals stung by their defeat at Ellsworth, sought to end the Boston streak.

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Boston would tie the game once more, but not long into the fourth quarter the Royals simply ran away from everyone in green.

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The Poetry Of Robert McCloskey The children’s author from Deer Isle

by Charles Francis

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here are a good many that think of Robert McCloskey as a “Maine” writer. The thing is they don’t quite know he is associated with the state. Sure, he wrote a couple of books set here for children, but he also wrote some set elsewhere.

One Morning in Maine and Blueberries for Sal take place on the shores of Penobscot Bay. Sal is the central character of both. Burt Dow: Deep Water-man, McCloskey’s last and most fantastical work, has the same general setting, as does Time of Wonder. But then, we also have Make Way for Ducklings and Homer Price, and its sequel, Centerburg Tales. The first is set in downtown Boston. The latter two have Ohio as a setting. McCloskey was born

in Ohio.

A good many of us grew up with Robert McCloskey tales. I know I did.

My mother was a children’s librarian with a degree in library science from Simmons. Jack, Kack, Lack, Mack, Nack, Ouack, Pack and Quack were but a year older than I. In more than one sense we grew up together. (For the uninitiated, those lyrical names belong to the ducklings of Make Way for Ducklings.) Homer Price, the story of a boy inventor, came out in 1943, two years after Make Way for Ducklings. Fortunately for my childhood sensitivities, Blueberries for Sal came out while I was still young enough to appreciate it.

The appearance of the mother bear was what did it. She was big and scary and

at just six I was well aware that there were fearsome bears in Maine.

Robert McCloskey’s Maine influences are centered on Scott Island and Deer Isle. Scott Island is a part of Deer Isle. Scott Island is the setting for Blueberries for Sal and One Morning in Maine. Sal and her mother are most often identified as McCloskey’s eldest daughter, Sarah, and his wife Peggy.

The real life Burt Dow is buried in Deer Isle.

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Robert McCloskey both authored and illustrated his books. This doesn’t mean that as a young man he intended to be both writer and illustrator.

The latter was his intended career. He went to the Vesper George Art School in Boston and the National Academy of Design in New York City. He once said writing was “sort of an accident.”

In like manner he described his creative process as “I really think up stories in pictures and just fill in between the pictures with a sentence or a paragraph or a few pages of words.” An educational psychologist might describe McCloskey as a visual learner or as visually oriented. A literary critic might say his conceptions were image-based. The lay person, the common reader, however, might call him a poet, a children’s poet.

I like to think of Robert McCloskey as a poetry writer for children. To get a child to appreciate poetry you tell a good story. Robert McCloskey told a good story, not only with words but also with pictures. His creations are poetry. Robert McCloskey’s work is poetry with a strong Maine influence. It is also poetry that shows other influences.

Robert McCloskey may be thought of as the first wildly popular American author for the youngest readers. No author before him achieved what he did, though there are evident works that influenced him. Robert Southey’s The Story of the Three Bears, known today as Goldilocks and the Three Bears, is one such influence. McCloskey, of course, influenced later authors. Maurice Sendak, author of Where the Wild Things Are, would be an example.

The author or examples cited above have at least one common thread ― besides having a scary element they are cautionary. They impart a lesson. The

Story of the Three Bears deals with the hazards of wandering off and exploring the unknown. Where the Wild Things Are deals with learning to cope with emotion. Max, the central character of the story, is sent to his room for mischievousness. There he enters an imaginary world of made up monsters.

However, he soon finds himself lonely, and returns to his bedroom to find supper waiting for him.

The story line of One Morning in Maine centers on a loose tooth. The loss of the first is a right of passage, one of the very earliest. It is both a bit scary and a bit of a fun-type adventure. When Sal realizes she has a wiggly tooth she is in turn jubilant and despairing. Sal’s right of passage places her in a new relation to her younger sister who has yet to experience the loss of a tooth.

How does someone become a poet?

In particular, how does someone become a poet of children? What brings (Continued on page 32)

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(Continued from page 31) forth the poetic character? What influences create the poet?

McCloskey credited his surroundings for inspiring Make Way for Ducklings. He was working in Boston at the time, not far from Boston Common with its duck pond. There were duck-created “traffic problems.” Everyone familiar with the book knows the scene with the benign policeman stopping traffic so Jack, Kack, Lack, Mack, Nack, Ouack, Pack, and Quack can cross the street safely. The cautionary element of the tale is obvious. The caution is directed at the youngest of readers.

The same cautionary element is evident in Blueberries for Sal. The mother bear in the tale is a benign bear, but scary all the same. The same is true of the bears in Southey’s The Story of the Three Bears.

When a potential poet discovers the poetry that is both within and without

him or herself, he or she begins a process that only ends when there is no more poetry within and no desire to discover it without again.

Burt Dow: Deep Water-man, McCloskey’s last book, was written in 1963. The story is a departure from his earlier work. It is a retelling of Jonah and the whale from the Old Testament.

Burt is a retired Maine fisherman. His boat is the Tidely-Idley. He has a pet gull, the Giggling Gull. One day Burt, the Tidely-Idley and the Giggling Gull are caught in a storm. They take refuge in the belly of a whale Burt has made friends with.

When the storm is over, Burt has the problem of getting out of the whale’s belly. Burt, of course, is an ingenious downeaster. He splashes paint on the whale’s innards. The whale vomits Burt, Giggling Gull and Tidely-Idley out.

Burt Dow: Deep Water-man could be said to illustrate another of Robert McCloskey’s influences. The book is illustrated in vivid water color. The inside of the whale’s belly is a brilliant, strawberry pink, and the scene with the paint splashes is highly impressionistic. There is another approach to interpreting Burt Dow: Deep Water-man, though, as a work of willful revisionism. Without willful revisionism we would have no modern poetry. 1963, the year Robert McCloskey wrote Burt Dow: Deep Water-man, just happens to be the year Maurice Sendak wrote Where the Wild Things Are. Was Sendak’s work a willful revision of McCloskey? That is the point I make.

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Martha Moore Avery Steuben’s most famous daughter

by Charles Francis he has been called a forgotten Yankee Marxist. She was a Unitarian turned Catholic, and the founder of what some call the Catholic Salvation Army. A friend of Samuel Gompers, she urged him to rid the American Federation of Labor of Socialist influences. Opposed to Darwinism, because she saw it in an adversarial relation to free will, she fought for a moral code that would justify and strengthen the basic components of a civilized society: marriage, the family and the church. None other than Theodore Roosevelt praised her work. She is Steuben-born Martha Gallison Moore Avery.

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Two or three years ago a travel writer who goes by the name ‘judypatooty’ explored the Gouldsboro Peninsula. She had a three-hour cruise that she liked very much. (The captain of the boat was “hunky.”) The only other points she took note of was the fact a Steuben lobsterman had caught a “half-cooked lobster,” (the story made it into the Bangor Daily News and National Geographic News) and that “It appears that Steuben’s most famous resident was Socialist-turned-Catholic-Activist Martha Gallison Moore Avery.” Just how ‘judy’ learned of Martha Avery is anyone’s guess.

As a teenager Martha Moore (her married name was Avery) grew up listening to the wisdom of some of Maine’s most noted and sagacious political and judicial figures. They included men like Chief Justice of the Maine Supreme Ju-

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Martha Moore attended the Ellsworth Unitarian church with her grandfather.

Samuel Moore was a pillar of the community, a Maine State Senator. He helped her start a business, selling ladies’ hats.

Nothing could be more middle class, respectable, humdrum. How then, given this staid Downeast Yankee upbringing, one wonders, did Martha Moore go on to become first of all a Marxist, and then a Catholic activist?

Martha Moore was born in Steuben in 1851. Her father died when she was thirteen. She then went to live with her

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Bellamy Clubs were devoted to furthering the ideas of Edward Bellamy, the Socialist author of Looking Backward.

The clubs espoused utopianism and the nobility of the working man. In essence they were discussion groups for the politically correct liberals of the day. Moore would soon find this environment as confining as operating a hat shop. So much so that she joined the Socialist Labor Party of America. From here it was just a small step to radical Marxism.

Martha Avery’s compatriot in Catholic activism was a Dutch Jew by the name of David Goldstein. The two met in 1895 when Goldstein joined the Socialist Labor Party of America. On the surface it

would seem that the two were an unlikely pair. However, Avery served as Goldstein’s mentor. The two would convert to Catholicism at almost the same time.

In the nineteenth century a good many Boston Unitarians were drawn to Catholicism. The lure was mysticism as evidenced in the Quietist movement of the Jesuits. Quietism, like Transcendentalism, which grew out of Unitarianism, saw God as “part and parcel” of the Universe, of nature. Unitarians value education. For this reason some Boston Unitarians sent their children to Catholic schools. Martha Avery sent her daughter to parochial school. The daughter converted. Then Martha did. By 1905 both Avery and David Goldstein were Catholic.

Avery and Goldstein collaborated on works like Socialism: The Nation of Fatherless Children and Bolshevism: Its Cure. The works treated Socialism as a threat to the family. They presented Socialism as materialistic, devoid of moral codes or strictures, and aimed at an “unrestrained” workers’ revolt. The two also linked Socialism to Darwinism by es-

pousing a natural theology. Their natural theology was based on the idea that “the Cosmos was God’s creation.”

Martha Moore Avery and her protégé, David Goldstein, were both of a practical bent. That practically is evidenced in their support of the union movement and as advocates of collective bargaining.

As Catholic activists, Avery and Goldstein founded the Catholic Truth Guild.

The Guild became the largest lay organization of the Catholic church. It was this organization that was nicknamed the Catholic Salvation Army. Both were also active in the Common Cause Society, a Catholic labor group. Avery became its president in 1922, and was still serving in that office at the time of her death in 1929.

Martha Gallison Moore Avery is a good candidate for the title of Steuben’s most famous daughter. More than that, however, she clearly shows that there is much more to coastal Maine communities than the three-hour boat cruise that travel writer ‘judypatooty’ found to be the high point of her visit to Gouldsboro Peninsula.

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in cans with oil or a variety of condiments. The result was a Gulf of Maine staple that made its way to almost every corner of the world.

Stinson history or that of its progenitors in Prospect Harbor can be traced back at least to 1906. That is the year E.T. Russell & Co. built a canning plant in the community. Calvin Stinson Sr. and a partner bought the plant in 1927.

Stinson had previously worked there as an adolescent.

Over the years a number of other plants were added to the Stinson family of canning factories. The Addison Packing Co. of Southwest Harbor was added in 1931; Bath Canning in 1946.

There was a plant in Belfast and Sea-

he Stinson Canning Company plant in Prospect Harbor burned in May 1968. Records indicate the fire was caused by an electrical malfunction. Stinson started to rebuild almost immediately. By December, a few fish were being packed. Just weeks into the new year, the plant was going full speed. The State of Maine could now lay claim to having the newest and largest sardine packing company, not only in North America, but in the world.

The sardines for the Stinson plant were caught by seining boats and taken in weirs. The fish were brought to the Prospect Harbor plant where Stinson workers, mainly women, packed them

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In 2000, a Canadian company, Connor’s Brothers of Blacks Harbour, New Brunswick, purchased Stinson. The Canadians were in turn bought out by Bumble Bee in 2004. In 2010 Bumble Bee closed the plant. It was the last operating sardine packing plant in Maine.

The story of the closing of Maine’s last sardine packing plant made national and even international news. Anyone taking a cursory look at reports of the Prospect Harbor Stinson Plant closing could assume the Gulf of Maine sardine fishery was dead and laid to rest. That is the impression conveyed by some of the stories anyway. It is the impression of a way of life forever ending. One need but look at one new wire release, that of the Associated Press (AP), to see

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The AP article stated that “For the past 135 years, sardine canneries have been as much a part of Maine’s small coastal villages as the thick Down East fog.” It continued saying that of the some 400 sardine packing plants that once existed in Maine, Stinson was the last. It was not only the last in Maine, “but in the United States.”

There is some argument as to the first sardine packing company in Maine.

AP cited the Eagle Preserved Fish Co. of Eastport as the first. The year of its opening is given as 1875. A predecessor of the Portland Packing Company may predate this opening. Packing in cans was going on in Maine before the Civil War, possibly in the early 1830s.

The practice originated during the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon needed to feed his troops as they marched far from ready sources of food. And there

are other methods of preserving fish besides packing in cans. Just think of the salt cod that used to commonly be packaged in little wooden boxes.

Well before the nineteenth century, Gulf of Maine sardines were included among those fish caught and salted by British, French and Portuguese fisherman for consumption in Europe. Then, too, fish, like meat, can be smoked.

Prospect Harbor is part of the Town of Gouldsboro. Early on, the harbor had another name, Watering Cove.

Native Americans fished here long before settlers arrived. They fished using weirs.

Sardines are herring. Atlantic herring (Clupea harengus harengus) are schooling fish. They are called brit for the first year. A sardine is less than seven inches. A sea herring or bloater or roe herring is larger than nine inches.

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(Continued from page 39) inches. Herring feed on plankton and other small organisms, and in turn are an important prey species for other fish such as sharks, seabirds, and marine mammals.

The Native Americans whom the first white settlers found on these shores showed newcomers how to build weirs out of saplings driven into river bottoms and mud flats at low tide to catch schooling marine life.

Herring weirs are ingenious fish traps which are successful because of the natural behavior of herring. Herring tend to move to the surface and inshore at night. The weirs have a lead fence which directs the herring into the indented opening or mouth. Once inside the weir, the fish swim in a pattern always being led inward by the curve of the fence.

When canning factories began to proliferate, fishermen took herring from their weirs, loaded them into their

boats and took them to be canned. This is, of course, when nets had come to replace saplings. Herring larger than those used in canning were strung on sticks and smoked over slowly burning fires in smokehouses. Split from head to tail and gutted and cold smoked, they are the kippers loved by the British.

Fishermen also resorted to “torching” herring. Torching occurred at night. A lit torch attracted the herring to the surface, enabling fishermen to dip fish into dories with nets.

So what caused the decline of this long-time traditional herring fishery?

Some blame over-fishing by foreign fleets supported by factory ships. Other point to the New England Fishery Management Council. In 2010, the Council set the herring quota at 91,000 metric tons. This was down from 180,000 tons in 2004. The Council’s reasoning had to do with the uncertain scientific outlook of the region’s herring population.

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It would seem what has happened in the tiny town of Blacks Harbour, New Brunswick is this. In order to keep in line with the reduced sardine fishery and keep local fishermen and the canning factory in operation, Connors Brothers has reduced its scope of operation. Perhaps something similar will happen in a down east community.

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The 1913 Motorcar Deluge Selectmen’s restrictions couldn’t stop progress

by Brian Swartz he 1913 tourist season started early in Bar Harbor.

With new-fangled automobiles all the rage in Hancock County, motorists hit the Mount Desert Island roads hard on Saturday and Sunday, March 29-30, described by a local newspaper account as “great days for automobiles.” The weather actually featured cool temperatures with a chilly early spring breeze, but with “the roads in the village and the upper part of the island” already hardening as the sun warmed the soil, “many cars were out” that weekend.

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The cars, drivers, and passengers were all welcome in Bar Harbor — “a string of four Buicks and several cars from Bangor” rolled into Bar Harbor on March 29 — but many people did not want the noisy, speedy machines appearing anywhere on Mount Desert Island. Ever since the first motorcar had chugged along a local road, opponents had battled the perceived threat to MDI’s peaceful way of life.

So the folks motoring through Bar Harbor in late March to launch the 1913 tourist season faced “some stringent regulations,” which would “be necessary till the town becomes accustomed to the presence of machines,” the Bangor Daily News reported on Tuesday, April 1.

Bar Harbor selectmen established the local laws not only to affect Maine drivers that spring, but also for “laying a check for the reckless chauffeurs who may be expected to come here during the summer,” the paper explained.

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First, or so the Bar Harbor selectmen harrumphed, no car could travel faster than 8 miles an hour within a specific area: “from Duck brook bridge, Eden street and Kebo streets on the west, Cromwell Harbor road on the south, and the sea on the east and north.” This region encompassed the built-up portion of Bar Harbor.

Second, on the public roads outside Bar Harbor village, a car could travel no faster than 15 miles an hour. Drivers could not race their cars on any local road or street, and “the driver of any motor vehicle … approaching a crossing of ways (an intersection)” must slow down when doing so.

Upon encountering anyone “riding or driving a horse or horses or other domestic animals,” a motorist had to stop a vehicle if signaled to do so by the person with the animals, who must

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As for driving at night, well, Bar Harbor selectmen had the solution to that problem, too. “Every automobile, motor vehicle or vehicle drawn by horses or other domestic animals shall carry a lighted lamp between one hour after sunset and one hour before sunrise,” the selectmen decreed.

Third, fourth, or fifth — depending on who was counting the laws enumerated in the newspaper article — if a Bar Harbor police officer signaled any vehicle (motorized or not) to stop, then it had better stop and stay stopped “until such time as directed by such police officer to proceed.”

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Such prognostication was made by the motorcar’s vociferous opponents, who claimed that backfiring cars would frighten horses, which would bolt with their drays and wagons and run over innocent passersby. But the motorcar still remained an anomaly on the Bar Harbor tourist scene, “and the town is rapidly getting used to the unwonted sight of motors on its streets,” the reporter told Bangor Daily News readers on April 1.

“The change [to the motorcar] is being made much more readily and quickly than has been expected” on Mount Desert Island, the paper revealed.

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Lubec’s Brave Seafarers Welcomed Home Sailors survived a frightening row through raging seas

by Brian Swartz

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wo ghosts emerged from the sea at Seal Cove on Grand Manan Island on Tuesday, July 10, 1956.

The fact that they were rowing a weather-battered dinghy only added a haunting touch to their sudden appearance; after all, everyone in Lubec across Grand Manan Channel already figured that Capt. Victor Cumberland, 50, and deck hand Luther Matthews, 70, were already dead.

And they should have been.

The previous weekend, Cumberland and Matthews had sailed the 60-foot sardine carrier Mildred to Matinicus Island to load more than 40,000 pounds of herring for the R.J. Peacock Canning Company — which also owned the ship. Cumberland lived in Lubec, Matthews on Deer Island in New Brunswick; they planned to transport the herring to a Peacock cannery in Lubec.

Expected to arrive in Lubec within 24 hours, Cumberland and Matthews left Matinicus on Sunday, July 8. The Mildred steamed east as her crew occasionally conversed with other sardine-carrier crews by marine radio. By Sunday night the Mildred was sailing “off Mt. Desert, then in a heavy fog, but the seas were moderate,” reported C.M. Washburn of the Bangor Daily News.

Captain Sumner Hartford, who skippered the sardine-hauler Medric, spoke with Cumberland later that evening.

Then the Mildred vanished.

A strong onshore breeze wrapped the Maine coast in thick fog by Monday morning. Ship captains chatted on the marine band, but not Cumberland. The hours passed as the foghorn blew at West Quoddy Head Light in Lubec; despite the Bay of Fundy fog essentially reducing visibility to almost zero, boats carefully navigated the Lubec Narrows.

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Noontime came and went that Monday. With no sight or sound of the Mildred, people believed the good ship and crew were in peril. A fog-delayed landing local fishermen could understand; marine-band silence, they could not.

The fog grounded search aircraft and effectively prevented pleasure boaters from assisting in a search launched by mid-afternoon. Coast Guard boats and crews headed into the international waters along the Maine-New Brunswick border, and commercial fishermen paid closer attention to their ships’ radars.

The summer fog stubbornly clung to local waters at dawn on Tuesday, July 10. Washburn reported that “Peacock company officials stood by their

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airplane for a break” that would allow them “to scan the shore between Frenchman’s Bay and Quoddy” for any “trace of the Mildred.” Coast Guard vessels had sailed the missing sardine-carrier’s expected course, “but nothing had turned up.”

Then came a radio message from Grand Manan Island: Cumberland and Matthews were safely ashore there after surviving a nightmare afloat.

As the sailors later related, “both the radio and compass … were not working properly” not long after the Mildred departed Matinicus, according to a reporter named Jay Hinson. The crewmen plotted their course “practically by dead reckoning,” which did not account for a strong tide pushing them farther east than expected.

At 4:20 a.m., Monday, the Mildred suddenly struck the Murr Ledges some 20 miles south of Grand Manan Island.

Cumberland and Matthews stayed with their ship until 7:30 a.m.; with two-story waves pounding the Mildred to pieces on the rocks, the sailors “climbed into an 11-foot dinghy” and “shoved off into the mountainous seas,” Hinson wrote.

The tale reads like the best Ernest Hemingway or Jack London fiction.

“Lashed by a cold rain, smothered by a dense opaque fog, and powerless before the gale-whipped Atlantic ocean, the men could do nothing but keep the stern to the wind and pray,” Hinson wrote.

The rain drenched the men’s clothing and filled their boots; three months earlier or later, they would have died from hypothermia. But Cumberland and Matthews rowed hard, an intense physical effort that kept them somewhat warm.

They battled the raging sea for 7½ hours until, at 3 p.m., Monday, through “a break in the fog, Cumberland spotted land ahead,” Hinson reported. The sailors then “ran the dinghy through pounding surf onto a stony beach.”

They had come ashore on Outer Wood Island, located “three miles east of Grand Manan,” according to Hinson; the island actually lies due south of Red Point and due east of Southwest Head.

Unable to make a fire, the sailors “shivered in the fog, rain and cold rain for another 15 hours until early Tuesday morning,” Hinson wrote. Suddenly

the fog lifted sufficiently so Cumberland and Matthews could see Wood Island just to the north. Beyond lay Red Point and Seal Cove on Grand Manan Island’s southern coast; if the Mainers could reach Seal Cove Beach aboard their battered dinghy, they would be safe.

They did, and they were. Rescuers swarmed to Seal Cove, where Cumberland was soon bundled into a vehicle and driven across Grand Manan to shelter with relatives living at Northern Head. Weldon Ingalls welcomed Matthews into his home for the night.

On Wednesday, July 11, Cumberland and Matthews returned to Lubec and a hero’s welcome. Among the people greeting them as they stepped ashore was Carroll Peacock, whose sardine-canning company had owned the Mildred.

He welcomed them home. A canning company could always replace its sardine carriers, but never the brave men who sailed aboard them.

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Lincoln’s Samuel Freeman Hersey Former merchant elected to Congress from Maine’s 4th District

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ot that many decades ago, Maine sent three representatives to Congress; not until after the 1960 census did the state lose a district and a congressman. That loss reflected Maine’s dwindling political stature in the United States.

When Samuel Freeman Hersey decided to run for Congress in 1872, however, Maine had four congressional districts. Once elected to office, he would have preferred to stay there.

But for Hersey, time ran out — yet his legacy lives on.

Born in Sumner in mid-April 1812, Hersey spent his early years in the hill country north of Auburn. Educated in Buckfield and Sumner schools and at Hebron Academy, he became the selfmade man that many ambitious Main-

ers could become in that era.

Aspiring commercial interests took Hersey east to the booming Penobscot Valley, where he worked as a merchant in Lincoln in 1833 and in the same capacity in Milford four years later. When the so-called “Aroostook War” broke out in 1839, he gained all the military experience he would ever need; promoted to colonel and assigned a militia regiment, he led his men (enthusiastic volunteers) north to help dissuade Britain from invading Maine.

The war ended well for Maine — which gained Aroostook County in 1840 — and for Hersey, soon named a militia major general. Voters, especially those living in central and northern Maine, would later reward Hersey for his patriotic fervor.

Using the business contacts he had made while living in Lincoln and Milford, Hersey started buying timberlands and purchasing interests in sawmills along the lower Penobscot River.

Becoming a well-known “lumber baron” in the region, he adopted many trappings associated with his economic status, including membership in the Independent Congregational Society — Unitarian in Bangor.

In that era, influential Mainers often melded their business and political lives; Hersey was no exception. He dabbled in politics by gaining election to the Maine House of Representatives in 1842. His political leanings shifted to the Republican Party, under whose banner he gained election to the Legislature in 1857 and 1865 and to the state

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Known for his friendship with Hannibal Hamlin, Hersey participated in the Republican Party’s 1860 national convention in Chicago. The Maine delegation split its vote between Lincoln and New York Senator William Seward, the perceived front-runner going into the convention.

Hersey remained active in business and politics during the Civil War. His oldest son, Roscoe, joined the 1st Maine Heavy Artillery as a private in Company F. The regiment engaged in a savage fight near Spotsylvania Courthouse in May 1864; fortunately wounded in that battle, Roscoe Hersey escaped the regiment’s slaughter at Petersburg a month later. After he recovered from his wound, the War Department promoted him to captain and honorably discharged him.

After serving on the Republican National Committee from 1864 to 1868, Samuel Hersey decided to run for governor. Wartime governors like Israel

Washburn and Abner Coburn and future governors like Joshua Chamberlain served for one year; when he lost the 1870 gubernatorial race against Chamberlain by 20 votes, Hersey surprisingly opted not run for that particular office again.

Instead he gradually shifted his focus to Congress, and Fourth Congressional District voters elected him to the House of Representatives. He took his seat on Tuesday, March 4, 1873.

Today, with Maine now among the “oldest” states in terms of population demographics, having four congressional districts seems unimaginable. Such districts were geographically smaller 140 years ago, but Hersey never took his election for granted. He traveled through the Fourth District to renew old acquaintances and remind voters that he was familiar with their hard work.

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Then known as Township 2, Range 6, WELS, the heavily forested property later became Herseytown Township.

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A Child’s Imagination Cranberry Isles’ Rachel Field

by Charles Francis

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dults tend to think that children often confuse fantasy with reality. It is one of the reasons Hollywood and television fare continually serve as contentious fodder for those who have long forgotten what it was like to be able to create imaginary worlds and activities. After all, no child ― no matter how young ― believes that three pigs can build a house of straw. Nor do they believe that a wolf could huff and puff it down. No child who has independently learned about piglets and pigs believes that the porcine critters can sit in chairs, or eat off plates using knives and forks.

Rachel Field was quite aware of the distinctions children are able to

draw regarding what’s real and what’s fantasy. She knew children love pretending and that they know the difference between pretend play and the real world. Field understood that children have an innately sophisticated sense of apprehending pretense for what it is.

Field understood the minds of children.

That’s why her books like God’s Pocket and Hitty: Her First Hundred Years were such successes.

God’s Pocket and Hitty: Her First Hundred Years are Cranberry Isles books. That is the only way to describe them. They have their genesis on those beautiful islands off the coast of Hancock County’s Mt. Desert Island.

God’s Pocket is the tale of a real

person, Captain Samuel Hadlock, Jr., a Cranberry Isles sea captain and adventurer who knew the Arctic intimately and toured the great cities of nineteenth century Europe with an Inuit (Field calls them Eskimo) couple, expounding on life in the far reaches of the frozen North. Hitty was a wooden doll. She came into being as a Cranberry Isles carving. Hitty was as real as any doll can be. She was a real carving and still exists to this day. As of this writing, Hitty makes her home in the library of the town of Stockbridge, Massachusetts.

That Hitty would find a home in Stockbridge, Massachusetts is fitting.

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(Continued from page 51) Stockbridge is where Rachel Field spent her formative years. That is, Stockbridge is where Field spent those years when she wasn’t on Sutton Island and other of the Cranberry Isles.

Hitty: Her First Hundred Years came out in 1929. God’s Pocket was published in 1934. This is not to suggest that the books are long out of date and hard to come by. Both have been re-issued, in 1999. In fact, Hitty has been updated.

Hitty and God’s Pocket are children’s classics. If you know anything about children’s books, are concerned with what your children or grandchildren are exposed to in the way of books, or are an informed buyer of children’s literature, you know what a Newbery Award book is. Newbery and Caldecott awards are imprimaturs of excellence in children books.

Because of Hitty: Her First Hundred Years, Rachel Field became the very first woman to receive the Newbery Medal for excellence in children’s fiction. Field’s Prayer for a Child received the Caldecott Medal.

Rachel Field enjoyed success beyond that as a children’s author.

Though primarily a writer of books for young readers and young adults ― the terms are preferable to children’s books ― Field also wrote for adults. Time Out of Mind and All This and Heaven Too were best sellers. The latter was made into a movie starring Charles Boyer and Bette Davis and received an Academy Award nomination in 1940.

Her adult works aside, one need but compare and contrast Hitty and God’s Pocket to begin to gain an appreciation of just how versatile a writer Field was.

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read a book about a doll. None, however, would hesitate reading one about an Arctic explorer. Rachel Field understood how to reach the mind of the young reader.

My mother was a children’s librarian ― she preferred the term “young adult.” My mother knew Rachel Field.

When Hitty and God’s Pocket came out my mother was employed by the Newton Library of Newton, Massachusetts.

Rachel Field visited the library when my mother worked there to speak to groups of young Newton readers. A local newspaper described Field’s appearance as “Young readers throng to hear popular writer” and “Youngsters sit with rapt attention as author tells stories of Maine island.”

Girls made up the greater portion of audiences when Field spoke on Hitty.

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a “show-and-tell.” Field made a point of commenting on each young person’s particular favorite. When she spoke on God’s Pocket, Field had the library have a good number of its books relating to the Arctic on display.

In a sense Hitty and God’s Pocket are travel tales. Hitty’s various owners take her to the far-flung South Pacific Islands and India. Besides the Arctic, God’s Pocket has scenes set in London and English countryside villages. Field would have children in her audience draw pictures or list things they thought Hitty or Captain Hadlock would encounter on their travels. It was a wonderful way to get the young people to use their imagination. Rachel Field would have made a good teacher, but, then, perhaps that is what she was.

What made Rachel Field’s books so popular among young people was that

she understood the mental processes involved in children’s play. Field understood that pretend play is a normal part of child development. A little girl can make a doll a part of a pretend tea party and pour the doll imaginary tea.

Perhaps a cup of fantasy tea spills. The cup is then filled again. The filling is an amazingly sophisticated process, one involving an almost inborn sense of physics. The pretend liquid acts just as it would in the real world. In like manner, boys can pretend to hunt seals from a kayak just as Samuel Hadlock’s Inuit did.

Today Hitty enjoys a greater popularity than God’s Pocket. The explanation ― or one explanation, anyway ― for this is a sad one. Surveys conducted by the American Library Association indicate the number of boys visiting their local library has dropped over

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As for Hitty, herself, she has an active fan club. Hitty can be visited on a made-for-children site on the Internet.

While some might see this as an indication girls have a more active imagination than boys, the matter is debatable.

That point aside, Rachel Field’s imaginative creation Hitty stands as proof that children are able to bracket off a play world in which truth becomes a truth-for-play world. One can imagine a young Rachel Field doing this very thing on a bright and sparkling summer day on Sutton Island. What later set Field apart from many adults was that she remembered how to do it.

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Phillips Lord: AKA Seth Parker Jonesport’s world-famous radio personality

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hen Phillips Lord passed away October 19, 1975 in Ellsworth, his demise was noted in newspapers across the country and around the world — the English speaking world that is. There is a good reason for this happenstance. Lord was one of the most influential media personalities of his day. People everywhere were familiar with programs Lord produced or wrote or in some way had a hand in creating. That’s why he has a place on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Just how influential was media mogul Lord? Well, he was able to command office space for Helen Sioussat,

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Some of the notices of Lord’s passing carried a bit of misinformation regarding him. The most notable mistake was the statement that Lord was a Maine native. He wasn’t, although he did have Maine roots. Some of Phillips Lord’s life was spent living in the downeast farmhouse of his maternal grandfather, clergyman Hosea Lord.

In point of fact, Phillips Lord was born in Hartford, Vermont. However, his parents, Reverend A.J. and Maude (Phillips) Lord, were both Mainers.

The notices of Phillips Lord’s passing aren’t the only places Lord is mistakenly called a Mainer. The same mistake is made in some of the biographical sketches that discuss his work for radio and for film and television. Most often the mistake comes when one of Lord’s most memorable creations beside Gang Busters is mentioned. That creation is Seth Parker.

Seth Parker is a popular radio character who made his home in Jonesport.

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ther, was a clergyman. For this reason he is often described as being based on Lord’s progenitors. Reverend Parker was, in his time, as well known as Lord’s later radio creation, Gang Busters. You have to have been a radio listener of the early 1930s to be familiar with the show Sunday Evening at Seth Parker’s, though. Ironically, there were listeners who thought Seth Parker a real person. It might be better to call Parker Phillips Lord’s alter ego. Lord played Parker on the show. There is a good reason why some thought Parker a real person, though. Lord wrote a book, Seth Parker & His Jonesport Folks: Way Back Home. The book’s title page has Seth Parker as the author.

Phillips Lord sold Sunday Evening at Seth Parker’s to NBC in 1929. The show has been described as combining “dialect humor, rural drama and

soft-soap religion.” Whatever the truth to the statement, the show worked.

It worked so well that Lord made as much as $100,000 a year during the Depression and later. Of course, he had other irons in the fire. Some of those irons were other shows and some of them were spin-offs of Sunday Evening at Seth Parker’s.

Shortly after Sunday Evening at Seth Parker’s aired, Lord launched another Maine-based show. This was Uncle Abe and David. The show starred the Maine-born comic duo of Arthur Allen and Parker Finnelly. It was set in a general store in Skowhegan. All told, Uncle Abe and David had a run of some eighteen years. Lord also had a second Maine-based show with Allen and Finnelly. It was The Stebbins Boys. The setting was Bucksport Point. Seth Parker was the big-

gest money maker, though.

What made Seth Parker so lucrative was its tie-ins. There were two books of Seth Parker hymns: Seth Parker’s Album and Seth Parker’s Hymnal.

The follow-up to the books was records. The Phillips Lord Trio released a series of gospel recordings. The Seth Parker book came out in 1932. It was followed by a stage play, Seth Parker’s Jonesport Folks: An Entertainment in Two Acts. RKO turned the play into a movie. Its title was Way Back Home.

Lord played his Parker character. His costar was none other than Better Davis.

Seth Parker invoked what may just be the ultimate spin-off of all time.

This spin-off took the form of a boat, the Seth Parker. The Seth Parker was a 188-foot, 867-ton, four-mastered schooner. Lord got Frigidaire to spon-

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sor the schooner and its voyage to the South Seas in search of treasure.

Sunday Evening at Seth Parker’s was broadcast from the schooner. Some accounts of the voyage of the Seth Parker sound as if the schooner was in reality a giant party boat. The only times things slowed aboard were for broadcasts and publicity stunts. The stunts included sending a diving bell into the deep to take marine photographs and possibly locate treasure.

The Seth Parker sailed down the east coast from New York City, putting in at ports like Philadelphia and Jacksonville. From the Caribbean it crossed to the Pacific via the Panama Canal. NBC chronicled the entire voyage. That is until the schooner encountered a ferocious storm off American Samoa. The voyage ended there.

Frigidaire then used the trip for its own further purposes. It produced a picture

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During the war years Lord produced a real time show about Allied fighter and bomber pilots. Actual pilots were interviewed. The interviews were followed by the dramatization of a mission.

In a way Lord also got into politics.

He had a hit with Mr. District Attorney.

The show was based on Thomas Dewey’s racket-busting exploits in New York. The show ran through the 1940s into the early ‘50s. It made Dewey’s name a household word, which in turn had a lot to do with his almost being elected President.

Gang Busters, of course, was Lord’s most memorable success. It aired on CBS radio in 1935 and lasted until 1957. Its spin-offs included the television show and movies. There was even a Gang Busters comic book.

One might wonder if the creations of Phillips Lord were nothing more than a bit of media trivia of the past.

Just consider how popular crime scene investigation shows are today, though.

Their roots date back to Gang Busters. As for Seth Parker, were it not for that character it is doubtful there would have been an Andy Griffith Show or any of the other down-home type shows that followed it like The Waltons and Green Acres. And, if you wonder if you can find a copy of Seth Parker & His Jonesport Folks: Way Back Home other than in a used book store, the book is again in print and on bookstore shelves.

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Remembrance At East Ridge Cemetery Honoring Civil War vets in Cooper

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Who were J.R. Higgins and John H. Smith? Did they volunteer or were they drafted to fight to save the Union their grandfathers had founded? Did they fight for honor and duty? Or might they have wanted adventure and a chance to leave the everyday life of Downeast Maine? Did they hope to gain glory or to find monetary opportunity? Did they have families? Were they fishermen or farmers or storekeepers or teachers or

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They would leave their Maine friends and families to fight for the Union and to abolish slavery in the name of humanity.

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have experienced days of boredom and anxiety waiting to go into battle.

The excitement, enthusiasm and passion for the cause could have waned while they waited in drafty tents and cold and muddy trenches. Higgins and Smith and many others were Mainers and probably proud of it. But like all of their fellow soldiers, they had to put that loyalty aside in order to become part of a much larger army that had to follow orders, function and be united in the chaos of the battle. Most soldiers were in the infantry and had to walk and march long distances. Their boots and shoes would wear out and they became footsore and weary. But soldiers endured because it was their duty.

A soldier also had to endure the madness of war itself. The screams of cannonballs flying over them and the descending whine when they came down and thundered into the ground was never taken for granted. There was often no place to seek shelter and they

could be horribly blown to bits. They would hear the loud whiz of bullets and musket balls and the whoosh of deadly shrapnel. They would smell smoke, gunpowder, blood, sweat and even fear.

Soldiers sometimes had to walk or run right over the bodies of wounded and dead soldiers and ignore their pain and suffering in order to save their own lives. You would probably never forget such experiences. If you saw blasted battlefields that were once crop fields and shattered buildings that were once homes and towns, you would have had to know that human lives were ruined as well. I wonder if men like Smith and Higgins has such experiences and memories.

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(Continued from page 63) North and South. They can visit graves and battlefields and monuments. In a park in Calais there is a bronze soldier standing atop a red granite monument.

He confidently holds a rifle across his chest and wears the uniform and cap of a Union soldier. The plaque below him states this was erected in 1893: “In Grateful Remembrance Of/The Men Of Calais/Who Upon Land And Sea Sacrificed Their/Lives That The Nation Might Be Preserved/And That Government Of The People/By The People And For The People Should/Not Perish From The Earth/ 1861-1865. Calais citizens remembered and desired to have future generations do the same thing. There are many such moments in Maine and other places in our nation that honor people.

As Mainers we all should remember and be proud that it was Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain of Maine, hero of

the Battle of Little Round Top at Gettysburg, who was chosen from many other valiant Union Army leaders to accept the formal surrender of Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia on April 12, 1865. Ulysses S. Grant chose him, not because of his leadership in battle, but because he knew Chamberlain was a humble man with a sense of honor and compassion. He understood how important it was to begin a healing process for a torn nation. He respected people, He ordered his men to perform the formal salute of arms which recognizes the common soldier with dignity and respect as he surrenders. He wrote in his book Passing of The Armies: “Before us in proud humiliation stood the embodiment of manhood; men whom neither toils and sufferings, nor the fact of death, nor disaster, nor hopelessness could bend from their resolve; standing before us now, thin and worn, and fam-

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ished, but erect, and with eyes looking into ours, waking memories that bound us together as no other bond; was such manhood to be welcomed back into a Union so tested and assured.”

I, too, understand how important it is to celebrate the contributions of people, and not war itself. So I will continue to visit the graves of Higgins and Smith.

Charles Kuralt once said: “The reality of any place is what its people remember of it.” I will always admire and respect the caretakers of the East Ridge Cemetery in Cooper who still place all those small American flags near their graves. Let all of us remember.

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Thoughts From The “Magic City” The growth of Millinocket in the 1920s

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Over the following decades more forests were felled, roads were built, and people from foreign lands arrived and the town grew so fast and furiously it became known as the “Magic City.”

Growing up in the 1920s as I did, I witnessed the continuing growth.

Stores lined the main street, schools and churches were built, more streets, development for housing in remote areas and, yes, the arrival of families from foreign lands ― especially Canada ― became our neighbors. On a very small scale, that era in the Maine woods was almost a duplicate of a metropolitan city.

Looking back it seems reasonable to discern that growing up in such a mix of nationalities favored the acceptance of people who spoke, prayed and ate unlike our own families ― but they were kids, just as we were and we found ways to get along.

The bread-winners of all persuasions found work and earned wages to care for their families. Mill workers, police, snow plowers, road crews and meat-cutters formed an amalgamation of citizens who had time to not only work together, but to play cards, visit and gossip together. Life-long friendships were established. Even today as the mill has changed hands, has been down-sized and employment lessened ― those early families are still in touch

with each other, have intermarried and raised several generations that still look to Millinocket, the “Magic City,” as home.

A furniture store that was known as Fullers or Cliffords, depending on the era in which you purchased your home furnishings, was often a meeting place for gossip.

Times and facilities have changed up there on the way to Mount Katahdin, but the people and the scenery remain the same. The strong, New England stamina that has sustained Millinocket for 113 years continues.

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The Legendary Lombard Log Hauler Life of the early Maine lumberjack

by Charles Francis he Lombard Log Hauler was the first successful internal combustion powered machine to be introduced into the Maine woods for hauling logs. It made its debut during the heyday of the great log drives and made the demanding work of the lumberjack easier. Prior to its introduction, oxen and horses were the chief power source for getting logs to water.

The life of the early lumberjack in the Maine woods was extremely demanding. Not only did they spend much of their time in subzero temperatures, they also worked with the most basic of tools: axes, crosscut

saws and levers and pulleys. Therefore, any technical advance was important not only from the economic standpoint of the timber owner but for the lumberjack as well. Prior, as it was, to the introduction of the truck and the invention of the chain saw, the Lombard Log Hauler provided the first giant step in modernizing logging operations.

The Lombard Log Hauler was the brainchild of Alvin Lombard. Lombard designed and built a working model of his first log hauler in 1900.

Later that same year, the Waterville Iron Works built the first working hauler. In November it was patent-

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ed. Alvin Lombard’s patent read in part as follows: The machine provides “...traction in which the engine is supported on two pairs of geared wheels over which runs a track made of lags bolted together in such a manner to make the track flexible and geared to mesh with the wheels. The weight of the engine holds the lags on the ground. The power is applied to the forward pair of tracks which, as they turn, move a lag forward and place it on the ground to extend the track forward. The rear wheels, as they move forward, pick up the last lag off the ground and move it forward. By this arrangement the engine rolls on a track held firmly on the ground or loose snow by its own weight with sections of the

track laid down in front of the drive wheels as it moves forward.”

Alvin Lombard’s patent marked the founding of the Lombard Traction and Engine Company. It also marked the beginning of the modern era of logging. The company name was changed to the Lombard Tractor and Truck Corporation in 1927.

The first Lombard Log Haulers were steam-powered. They could haul a dozen sleds of logs easily if road conditions allowed. The steam-powered haulers required a two man crew — one to steer and one to feed fuel to the fire which kept the pressure up in the boiler. In addition, there was a conductor who made sure the loads on the sled were secure. The driver sat in front of the boiler, which kept his back side

warm. As there was no enclosed cab, his front side was assailed by wind, snow and freezing rain, a condition that must have been exceptionally uncomfortable, as he couldn’t move around.

Driving a Lombard Log Hauler required intense concentration as it could veer off course and speed out of control on a downgrade.

One early device used to control the Lombard Log Hauler was the trig chain. This was a heavy chain wound around the sled runners so that when the sled started downhill the chain was drawn under the iron runners, thus cutting into the snow or ground and slowing the sled. Most loggers considered the trig chain the greatest advance in safety of the early 1900s. However,

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there was always the possibility of the chain snapping as it went over a rock and then flailing about until it hit someone. Plus there was the added drawback that trig chains tore up roads. The Lombard Traction and Engine Company, however, was ready to meet these problems. Or at least to try to meet them.

In 1909 the Lombard Traction and Engine Company produced an experimental electric-powered hauler. This innovation required a power plant, a dam to produce electricity and trolley lines to carry the electricity.

Lombard Traction and Engine persuaded Great Northern to try out its electric-powered hauler during the winter of 1909-1910. An experimental three mile line was built.

However, it was a failure. Snow and rain continually created short cir-

cuits. The Lombard company didn’t give up with experimenting, however.

The company’s next innovation was a gas-powered hauler. While it was a greater success than the electric-powered hauler, it never created a demand. The gas-powered haulers could only haul three or four sleds as opposed to the dozen that the steam-powered haulers could pull.

Lombard’s next innovation was the development of a line of tractors and bulldozers. They were a success.

The tractors replaced oxen in the woods and they were among the very first sold to Maine farmers or farmers anywhere for that matter.

It was the Lombard bulldozer that totally changed logging operations, however. The largest were so big that they could plow a swath through

the woods pushing trees, stumps and rocks to the side while grading a road at the same time. However, it was the bulldozers of the Lombard Tractor and Truck Corporation that spelled the death knell for the Lombard Log Hauler.

The heyday of the Lombard Log Hauler lasted almost thirty years or until the early 1930s. With the advent of the bulldozer and of graded roads in the wilderness, trucks were able to reach the site of logging operations.

In 1934 Lombard produced a diesel-powered hauler that was as powerful as a steam-powered hauler. It was the only one the company was to produce. The era of the Lombard Log Hauler in the great tracts of forest was over. ❦ Other businesses from this area are featured in the color section.

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Albert H. Lunt From Who Knows Where No one wanted to claim a Maine deserter

by Brian Swartz

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hen word reached Orono that Union deserter Albert H. Lunt was apparently from that Penobscot Valley town, patriotic residents were aghast.

Raised in Hampden, Lunt displayed criminal tendencies in his adolescence and finally ran off to join a circus at age 13. He later stole a horse, Maine law officers caught him, a court convicted him, and he went to jail.

Lunt gained release from prison in early 1861 and, although a convicted felon barred by federal law from enlisting in the Army or Navy, he joined the 9th Maine Infantry Regiment as “William L. Lunt” later that year. Lunt was assigned to Company I. He stood more than 6 feet tall and sported a muscular, well-built body. Officers believed Lunt would make a good soldier; he proved them wrong.

The 9th Maine went to Florida,

but definitely not on a winter’s excursion to avoid the frigid New England winter. The regiment went ashore near Fernandina Beach and dispersed to guard different posts, from forts to railroad bridges.

On Sunday, April 6, 1862, Lunt left the regimental camp and traveled about 3 miles to a house owned by Mrs. Ellen Manning.

He robbed her of $268; Manning promptly told Federal officers, who sent a provost guard to arrest Lunt, so the next day he abandoned his rifle and gear and fled to Confederate lines.

A 1st Florida Cavalry Regiment (Confederate) patrol captured Lunt. He told Southern officers that he wanted to fight for the Confederacy; to convince them that he told the truth, Lunt directed the Confederates to where seven comrades from Company I were “doing picket duty at the railroad bridge which spans the creek sep-

arating Amelia Island from the mainland,” reported Lt. Col. Horatio Bisbee Jr. of the 9th Maine.

Lunt’s company commander, Capt. S.D. Baker, had deployed Orderly Sgt. Richard Webster, Corp.

James W. Bowman, and Privates C. Wesley Adams, Ansel Chase, John E. Kent, Alonzo B. Merrill, and Isaac Whitney to guard “Judge O’Neal’s place,” according to Bisbee. Without telling his superiors about the assignment, Baker left his men “to protect the wife of one Mr. Heath, whom I held in arrest” and whose wife “was living at O’Neal’s house,” Bisbee reported.

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had been shot that day, and the remainder of the party taken prisoners,” Bisbee reported.

Lunt had proved his worth to the Confederacy, but his old habits got the better of him. After he allegedly pick pocketed a major’s watch, Col. William G.M. Davis of the 1st Florida Cavalry handed him over to Federal authorities about April 20.

A court-martial promptly convened at St. Augustine, tried and convicted Lunt for desertion and “highway robbery,” and sentenced him to death. The execution would take place after President Abraham Lincoln reviewed the court proceedings; savage battles in Tennessee and Virginia occupied his attention that spring, so Lincoln took a while to decide Lunt’s fate.

The Army transferred Lunt to Hilton Head, South Carolina, where he was imprisoned that summer and fall under the watchful eye of Maj. George Van Brunt of the 47th New York Infantry Regiment. He was the Hilton Head provost marshal.

In mid-November, Lincoln signed an order okaying Lunt’s execution, which was set for December 1. In Maine, people were already distancing themselves from Lunt.

Writing from Orono to Maine Adjutant General John Hodsdon on Wednesday, November 19, Samuel Libbey stressed that “the name of ‘Albert H. Lunt’” had been placed “on our list of men furnished for the war.

“He is the infamous scoundrel who was recently sentenced to be shot, for desertion, etc,” Libbey reminded Hodsdon, already wellversed in the facts.

Lunt had “no reason to hail from here,” Libbey figuratively snorted.

“His father Henry Lunt moved from here in [18]48 or 49. The young man hasn’t ever worked here since.”

Not only was Lunt not connected from Orono, but he had “lived in Old Town and lastly in Hampden,” Libbey pointed out, attempting to shift the blame elsewhere.

“I wish our town might be

spared the disgrace of such fellows hailing from it by putting them where they belong,” he groused with his goose-quill pen.

“I merely state the facts in the case as I understand them and you will of course dispose of this case as you think best,” Libbey concluded.

A 12-soldier firing squad shot Lunt on Monday, December 1, and other soldiers buried him in an unmarked grave on Hilton Head. Maine quickly washed its hands of any affiliation with Lunt; when Hodsdon issued his report on Maine’s 1862 war efforts just a few months later, Hodsdon listed Lunt’s pre-enlistment residence as Plattsburg, New York. ❦ Other businesses from this area are featured in the color section.

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Cedar ................................................................................ 5 Dave Eaton Water Treatment ........................................................ 3 Dave’s Small Engine Repair ....................................................... 58 Deer Haven Self Storage ........................................................... 73 Dickinson’s Feed & Seed ........................................................... 56 Discovery House ........................................................................ 25 Dorsey Furniture .......................................................................... 6 Downeast Drawings & Wildlife Art Gallery & Gifts ................. 59 Downeast Self Storage ................................................................ 62 Downeast Windjammer Cruises ....................................... .......... 44 Dow’s Eastern White Shingles & Shakes ..................................... 3 Eagle’s Lodge Motel ................................................................... 35 E.H. Downs Inc. General Contractor .......................................... 68 Eagle Aboriculture ....................................................................... 4 Eastbrook Variety ........................................................................ 53 Eastern Maine Appliance ............................................................ 62 Eastport Breakwater Gallery ....................................................... 47 Eastport Chowderhouse .............................................................. 60 Eastport Healthcare ..................................................................... 60 Eastport Pets ............................................................................... 61 Eat-A-Pita .................................................................................... 22 Ellsworth Chain Saw .................................................................. 19 Enfield Citgo & Service Center ......................................... ......... 68 Fairfield Antiques Mall .................................................................. 7 Fernald Oceanfront Cottages ....................................................... 42 Fort View Variety ........................................................................ 13 Fox Hill General Store & Snack Bar ........................................... 47

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Friends & Family Market ............................................................32 G. Drake Masonry ...................................................................... 24 G.F. Johnston & Associates ........................................................ 38 Gagne & Son Hardscape & Masonry Centers ........................... 30 Gateway Lobster Pound .............................................................. 35 Gerald L. Wood & Son, LLC .......................................................57 Gillmor’s Beef ‘N’ Ale Restaurant & Lounge .............................48 Global Self Storage ..................................................................... 50 Gordius Garage & Island Motors ................................................ 20 Gray’s Custom Builders .............................................................. 48 Greenhead Lobster, LLC ........................................................... 29 Gutter Guys .................................................................................43 H.C. Haynes, Inc. ........................................................................ 65 H.C. Rolfe & Sons, Inc. ...............................................................54 Hair Essentials Family Salon ...................................................... 33 Hammond & Sons Oil Company ................................................ 55 Hammond Lumber Company ......................................................26 Handprints Reflexology ...............................................................18 Hanington Bros, Inc. ................................................................... 64 Hannaford - Lincoln ....................................................................68 Hanscom’s Fresh Pack Blueberries ............................................ 56 Happy Acres Hall ....................................................................... 70 Harbor Cafe .................................................................................15 Harbor View Motel & Cottages .................................................. 38 Harley Plumbing & Heating Plus ................................................10 Harris Point Cabins & Motel .......................................................47 Hartt Transportation Systems, Inc. ..............................................27 Hermon Redemption Center .........................................................8 Hilights Salon & Barber Shop .....................................................18 Hilton Garden Inn Bangor ...........................................................25 Horton, McFarland & Veysey ......................................................18 Houston-Brooks Auctioneers ....................................................... 7 Hulls Cove General Stores .......................................................... 41 In-Home Care ............................................................................. 66 International Motel ..................................................................... 62 Island Auto Repair .......................................................................52 Island Country Club .................................................................... 14 Isle Au Haut Company ................................................................15 J.E. Tracey & Son Construction ..................................................42 J.M. Brown Construction ............................................................26 Jeannie’s Great Maine Breakfast .................................................41 John R. Crooker Insurance ..........................................................13 Jon D. Woodward & Son, Inc. .....................................................15 Jones Custom Painting ................................................................26 Jones Lobster Co. ........................................................................31 Karen’s Diner & Korner Pub .......................................................47 Katahdin Area Chamber of Commerce .......................................67 King Bros. General Contractors ..................................................69 Kinney Auto Center .................................................................... 63 Knight’s Grocer ...........................................................................64 Lane Conveyors & Drives, Inc. ...................................................28 LaPierre’s Cleaning Service ........................................................66 Lennie’s Superette .......................................................................67 Levasseur’s True Value Hardware ...............................................66 Liberty Cafe .................................................................................47 Lighthouse Digest ....................................................................... 28 Lincoln Maine Federal Credit Union .......................................... 49 Look Bros. Septic & Pumping .................................................... 44 Lunt’s Lobster Pound ..................................................................35 Machias Bay Area Chamber of Commerce .................................56 Machias Motor Inn ......................................................................57 Maine Collision Center ............................................................... 27 Maine Equipment Company .........................................................5 Maine Grind ..................................................................Back Cover Maine Historical Society ..............................................................4 Maine Sea Salt Company ............................................................ 45 Maine Veterans’ Homes ...............................................................45 Maine Wild Blueberry Company ................................................ 43 Maine-ly Delights ........................................................................20 Maine’s Own Treats .....................................................................19 Mainescape Garden Shop ............................................................17 Manaford’s Market ......................................................................44 Margaretta Motel ........................................................................ 57 Marine Environmental Research Institute....................................16 Martha’s Cafe & Cake .................................................................35 McCurdy’s Smokehouse .................................................. ...........59 Merle B. Grindle Agency .............................................................16 Mike Nelligan Construction ..........................................................7 Milagro Coffee & Espresso ........................................................ 21 Miles Surveying ........................................................................... 9 Millinocket House of Pizza ......................................................... 67 Millmark Products, Inc. ...............................................................18 Mulholland Bros. Market Gallery & Gift Shop............................59 Murray LaPlant Inc. ................................................................... 63 Native American Arts ..................................................................46 Nautica Pub .................................................................................42 Nelson Decoys .............................................................................55 Nice Twice ...................................................................................34 North Country Auto ......................................................................7 North Woods Real Estate .............................................................48 Oakland House Cottages ..............................................Back Cover O’Donald’s Concrete, Inc. ............................................................ 9 Ohio Brook Disposal ...................................................................58 Oli’s Trolley .................................................................................40 Owen Gray & Son, Inc. ............................................................... 28 Pangburn’s Family IGA ...............................................................65 Parts Alternatives .........................................................................11 Pat’s Pizza Orono ........................................................................ 50 Penobscot Marine Museum .........................................................23 Penobscot Nation Cultural & Historic Preservation ................... 72 Perry O’Brian, Attorney at Law .................................................. 11 Peter Fleming’s Pump Service & Water Treatment .................... 24 Pine Bough Antiques .................................................................. 52 Pine Grove Crematorium ............................................................. 9 Pleasant Bay Bed & Breakfast & Llama Keep ........................... 55 Points East Real Estate ................................................................45 Precision Auto Body, Inc............................................................. 53 Prin A. Allen & Sons Builders .....................................................16 Pumpkin Patch RV Resort ...........................................................24

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Quietside Cafe & Ice Cream Shop .............................................. 20 Quilt ‘n’ Fabric ............................................................................37 R&M Handyman Services ...........................................................18 Rackliffe Pottery ..........................................................................31 Raymond James Financial Services, Inc. ......................................6 Raymond’s Variety & Diner ........................................................68 Richard Parks Furniture ................................................Back Cover River’s Edge Motel ..................................................................... 49 Robbins Motel ............................................................................ 38 Roosevelt Campobello International Park .................................. 46 Rumery’s Marine .........................................................................42 Rustic Rail Fence Co. ..................................................................47 Ruth & Wimpy’s Restaurant ........................................................42 Salsbury’s Organic Garden Supplies ...........................................52 Sawbuck Custom Woodworks .....................................................57 Sawmill Woods Golf Course ...................................................... 13 Schooner Gallery ........................................................................ 54 Scotties Bookhouse .....................................................................52 Seal Cove Auto Museum .............................................................36 Seawall Motel ..............................................................................36 Shady Acres Campground & RV Park ..........................................9 Shinbashi .................................................................................... 33 Shooters Billiards ........................................................................68 Simone’s 59 Franklin Street ................................................... ....34 Soup To Nuts ...............................................................................65 South Brewer Barber Shop ..........................................................11 Southwest Harbor & Tremont Chamber of Commerce ...............51 Spencer’s Ice Cream ....................................................................71 St. Croix Valley Chamber of Commerce .....................................63 State Street Wine Cellar ...............................................................27 STEaD Timberlands, LLC .......................................................... 64 Steinke & Caruso Dental Care ................................................... 53 Step By Step Child Care ..............................................................54 Stephen Stanley, Inc. Electrical Contractor .................................37 Stewart’s Wrecker Service ............................................................5 Stonington Lobster Co-Op .......................................................... 15 Stonington Sea Products LLC ..................................................... 14 Storage Plus ................................................................................ 35 Sullivan’s Wrecker Service ......................................................... 71 Sunrise Realty ............................................................................. 56 Sunset Park Marina ..................................................................... 64 Sunset Point Campground .......................................................... 43 Sunset Redemption Center ......................................................... 73 Surry General Store ................................................................... 17 Sweet Timber Frames ................................................................. 51 Targett Plumbing & Heating ...................................................... 13 Taylor Rental Party Plus ............................................................. 11 Testa’s Restaurant ........................................................................41 That Guys Tires & Services ........................................................ 66 The Appalachian Trail Lodge & Cafe ......................................... 66 The Breeze .................................................................................. 31 The Brooklin Inn ........................................................................ 16 The Burning Tree ........................................................................ 51 The Captain’s Galley .................................................................. 22 The Colony Cottages & Motel .................................................... 41 The Eastland Motel ..................................................................... 59 The Fish Net ............................................................................... 32 The Hair Razor ............................................................................67 The Holmes Agency ................................................................... 19 The Maine Granite Industry Historical Society Museum .......... 22 The Motel East ............................................................................ 61 The New Friendly Restaurant, Inc. ............................................ 59 The New Hair Revue ............................................................ ......11 The New Galley ...........................................................................29 The Puffin Pines Country Gift Store ...........................................59 The Quoddy Tides .......................................................................60 The Red Barn Restaurant & Motel ..............................................43 The Ruggles House .................................................................... 55 The Tax Clinic ............................................................................ 71 Thomas W. Duff - Financial Advistor............................................6 Thompson’s Hardware Inc. ......................................................... 69 Timberland Acres RV Park ..........................................................36 Timkin Pike Tires ........................................................................ 54 Tim’s Plumbing ...........................................................................50 Toddy Pond Builders ...................................................................32 Town Auto Sales ..........................................................................32 Town Of Lincoln .........................................................................49 Tri City Pizza ...............................................................................10 Tucker Auto Repair .......................................................................9 Two Ladies Garden Shed ............................................................ 14 Uncle Kippy’s Restaurant .......................................................... 46 Unique Rock Shop ...................................................................... 13 United Country Bold Coast Realty ............................................. 46 V&S Good Neighbor Pharmacy & Ace Hardware ..................... 29 Vacationland Inn ......................................................................... 29 WaCo Diner .................................................................................61 Wagner Forest Management, Ltd. .............................................. 10 Waite General Store, Inc. ............................................................ 48 Walker’s ...................................................................................... 51 Walls TV, Appliances & Home Furniture .................................. 57 Wardwell Oil .............................................................................. 14 Washington Place ....................................................................... 62 West End Drug Co. ..................................................................... 39 West Quoddy Station ....................................................... .......... 58 West’s Coastal Connection ........................................... ............... 4 Wheaton’s Lodge .......................................................... ............. 64 Whitten’s 2-Way Service, Inc. .................................................... 28 Wikhegan Books ......................................................................... 52 Willard S. Hanington & Son, Inc. ................................................ 3 Willey’s Sport Center .................................................................. 34 William Coffin & Sons ............................................................... 62 Williams & Taplin Well Drilling Services .................................. 17 Wind & Wine By The Sea ........................................................... 38 Winn Service Center ................................................................... 65 Winter Harbor Lobster Coop .................................................... 43 WKIT/WZON .............................................................................26 Wreaths Across America ............................................................. 43 Yates Lumber, Inc. / Yates Trucking, Inc. ................................. 68 Yu Takeout ........................................................................... ...... 33

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